India-rubber shoe



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

ROBERT STORY AND THOMAS HOPPER, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY.

INDIA-RUBBER SHOE.

To all whom t may concern: n

Be it known that we, ROBERT STORY and THOMAS HOPPER, of New Brunswick7in the county of Somerset and State of New J ersey, have invented a newand Improved Mode for Attaching Leather Soles to. Metallic- RubberShoes; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exactdescription.

The nature of our invention consists in preparing the shoes. i

Metallic rubber gum is manufactured from a compound of india rubbersulfur, litharge, and camphene. The metallic gum for the manufacture ofshoes is out and fitted on lasts of various. sizes. The bottoms receivea sole and heel of cloth as represented in Figure 3, letters, A and B,prepared with the metallic gum on the inside for the purpose of adheringto the shoe in the process of curing in the heated chamber. And when theshoe is cured the tted parts become perfect and forming a shoe ready forthe adaptation of the leather sole as represented in Fig. 2.

In preparing the shoes for attaching leather soles, the shoe as shown inFig. 2, the bottom receives a coating of cement made of indiav rubberand lampblack dissolvedk in camphene, the leather also receives acoating of the same cement,` the leather sole and heel is then appliedto the bottom of the shoe,

and by compressing the bottom on a flat surface and drawing the shoeseveral times across the l'lat surface until the leather sole and heelis compressed, they `will adhere to each other as firmly as thesubstance or cloth will admit.

The shoe complete with the leather sole Y attached is representedy onthe drawing Fig. 1. 1 v

What we claimas our invention and desire to secure by Letters Patentis--n The attaching leather soles to metallic rubber shoes by means of asole and heel of cloth prepared with metallic gum on the inside for thepurpose of'adhering to the shoe in the process of curing in the heatedchamber, and when cured they are ready for attaching the leather soleand heel as named in the specification.

ROBERT STORY. y THOMAS I-IOPPER. Witnesses: p

OHAS. ATKINSON, SAMUEL' B. MARSH.

